Lamp-burner attachment.



G. A. HORN. LAMP BURNER ATTAGHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1912.

1,059,732. I Patented M51122, 1913;

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GEORGE A. HORN, OF NEWARK, NEW YORK.

LAMP-BURNER ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, 1913.

Application filed June 29, 1912. Serial No. 706,625.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. HORN, of Newark, in the county of WVayneand State of New York, have invented a new and use ful Improvement inLamp-Burner Attachments, which improvement is fully set forth in thefollowing specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

The present invention relates to attachments for kerosene burners and anobject of the same is to provide a device which may be manufacturedindependently of the burner and applied thereto for the purpose ofincreasing the illuminating power thereof and rendering it smokeless andodorless.

To this and other ends the invention consists in certain parts andcombinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described, thenovel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side view of the lamp burner with thepresent invention applied thereto, the cap of the burner being open;Fig. 2 is a top view of the burner with the device in position thereonand the hinged or swinging cap shown in section; Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of the embodiment of the attachment illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2;and Fig. 1 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the invention.

According to the present invention, there is provided a devicecomprising two oppositely disposed deflecting or confining walls 1, saidwalls preferably being arranged in converging relation, bringing theirupper edges closer to each other than their lower edges but having saidupper edges spaced apart a greater distance than and above the sidewalls of the usual flat wick tube 2 of the common or commercial form ofburner 3. In order to support these deflecting or confining walls onopposite sides of the burner tube 2 and preferably so that theattachment may be removably arranged on the burner 3, there may beprovided two walls 4 connecting the opposite upright edges of theconfining walls 1 and preferably provided with vertical grooves ordepressions 5 formed by bending or otherwise forming the metal of thewalls 4 so that the opposite narrow sides of the flattened tube 2 may bereceived within these depressions 5 to hold the confining walls inproper relation to the tube 2.

The confining walls 1 are provided with perforations 7 and also withextensions 8 turned outwardly from the upper edges of the wall 1 indiverging relation. The em bodiment shown in Fig. 4; differs from theembodiment shown in Fig. 3, only in the provision of perforations 9 inthe outwardly deflected portions 8.

The theory of this invention is that air passing through the usualopenings 6 of the burner is concentrated about the wick tube 2 by theconfining walls 1 which, after the burner has been lighted a short time,become hot and radiate heat which va-porizes the kerosene, thus makingthe burner generate its own gas. The walls a in addition to tying thewalls 1 together in properly spaced rela tion also act to confine theair and assist in the gas generating action. In some instances, it isdesirable to admit more air into the open ended generating chamberformed by the walls 1 and l and it is for this reason that the walls 1are provided with the openings 7. The deflected portions 8. are employedfor preventing the flame being affected by upward drafts of air on theeX- terior of the generating chamber, but it has been foundadvantageous, in some instances, to perforate these deflected portionsas shown in Fig. 5 to admit air to the flame. The walls 4, when thedeflected portions 8 are provided, are not extended upwardly as theflame passes above these walls between the ends of the deflected portion8.

It is apparent that there has been provided an attachment for thecommercial lamp burners adapted to be removed from or quickly placed inposition on the lamp burner to increase the brilliancy of the lightthereof and to render the same odorless and smokeless.

The device is simple in operation, inexpensive to manufacture and notliable to get out of order.

hat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. An attachment for lamp burners comprising a member open at its lowerand upper end, and having two opposite walls converging from their lowerto their upper edges and walls connecting the converging walls andprovided with means for engaging the wick tube to hold said convergingwalls in proper relation to said wick tube, said member also havingoutwardly deflected portions above said converging walls extending fromone connecting wall to the other.

2, An attachment for lamp burners comprising a member open at its lowerand upper end and having two opposite walls converging from their lowerto their upper edges, and walls connecting the converging walls andprovided with means for engaging the wick tube to hold said convergingwalls in proper relation to said wick tube, said member also havingoutwardly deflected portions above said converging walls extending fromone connecting wall to the other, and the converging walls of saidmember being provided with numerous perforations throughout their areas.

3. An attachment for lamp burners comprising a member open at its lowerand upper end and having two opposite walls converging from their lowerto their upper edges, and walls connecting'the converging walls andprovided with means for engaging the wick tube to hold said convergingwalls in proper relation to said wick tube, said member also havingoutwardly deflected portions above said converging walls extending fromone connecting wall to the other, said converging walls and deflectedportions being provided with numerous perforations throughout theirareas.

GEO. A. HORN.

Witnesses:

HAROLD H. SIMus, ADA M. WHITMORE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

